Add connect mode, portals, backlinks and renames (stage 8d, v1)

Part 8d, the last of stage 8, and with it everything on DESIGN.md's v1
list.

Connect mode (C): the cursor goes to another node, a dashed arrow in the
visual color follows it, and Enter links the two; then the cursor goes
back to where C was typed (the user's pick). d removes the line between
them (a branch is cut, and the child comes loose), > puts the node under
the other one, and <Space> a, l, c, s and t style the line as you watch,
making it when it isn't there yet. Everything connect mode changes is one
undo group, and Esc takes it back with History::cancel, which leaves
nothing to redo. From visual mode every selected node connects, and the
line pickers go back to connect mode when they close.

Portals show their document live, from a cache of what each document
file holds (open documents from their buffers, the others from their
files, looked at every second): the root's title, its color and how many
nodes it has, or ? when the document isn't there. Enter or gf goes
through, as a jump, and the pane's breadcrumb starts with the documents
it came through. <Space>p types :portal (the user's pick): a path as :e
takes it, or the title of a new document. Backlinks are put right
whenever a document is opened or saved; the root shows how many, the
Note view lists them, gu goes up to them (the user's pick) and
:backlinks lists them.

File names follow the root's title: when it changed, the next save
renames the file (-2 when the name is taken; a folder's default document
keeps its name), and the portals pointing at it, its backlinks in the
documents it leads to, the recent documents, the capital marks and the
jump lists follow. A portal whose file was moved by hand finds its
document in that folder by uid. Portals in a register keep full paths,
so a pasted portal leads to the same document from any folder.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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skkeyeandClaude Opus 5.5 committed 2026-10-02 08:24:43 -04:00
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@@ -217,6 +217,9 @@ pub enum Command {
JumpForward,
FollowPortal,
FollowLink,
/// `gu`: up to where the document is reached from (the portals that
/// lead to it).
GoUp,
/// Enter: edit the title, or go through a portal.
Activate,
@@ -428,6 +431,7 @@ pub const COMMANDS: &[CommandInfo] = &[
info("jump-forward", C::JumpForward, "jump forward"),
info("follow-portal", C::FollowPortal, "through the portal"),
info("follow-link", C::FollowLink, "follow a cross-link"),
info("go-up", C::GoUp, "up to the portals that lead here"),
info("activate", C::Activate, "edit the title, or go through a portal"),
// The view.
info("center", C::Center, "center the view"),